The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE FIRST NIGHT the lake at Geneva, Mimi,
froze over IL froze 50 quick and hard that a
large number of geese were froze in, or at least
their legs, and the boys, the next day, while
skating around among them killed thirty-four
with clubs
IT is SAID that the biggest price ever paid for
a weaving colt was that paid by Arthur Cation,
of Chicago, TO j. V. Stricken for Delphos son
of Natwood, and grandson on his dams side
of Harold, the sire of Maud S. He fetched at
auction $3.50.
WILLIAM DoNMoYER of Bath, Northampton
county, Pa, who is working in a tannery at
Allentown, discovered recently that a fellow
laborer was his brother, whom he doesn't re:
member ever having seen. They were separated
when they were infants.
THERE is an unaccountable and remarkable
mortality among the sardines of San Luis,
Obispo bay They are dying by the thousands,
and the shores of the bay are covered with
these dead fish TO the depth of two or three feet,
and the stencil is unbearable
THE silk dress coat has reached Boston, and
made tremendous sensation among the dudes
of the Hub 1t is really a handsome garment,
made of heavy orded hstreess silk which at
little distance looks like the richest of black
broadcloth. 1t is Paris fashion.
TRAMP LIFE would seem to be undergoing
radical change. In the East, lately, several of
the fraternity Toasted on dog meat and now five
others have been arrested for breaking into mot
out of the Jail at York Pa Their excuse was
that they wanted shelter for the night.
KANSAS is trying to encourage silk produc-
ton, and mas, by act of Legislature, established
station where eggs will be distributed and
reelerS educated. Ten acres have been set out
with mulberry trees and fifteen reels are now
running, producing, it is said, excellent silk.
WHEN a settler in the Northwest Territory
wants to go back to Ontario to be married, the
Canadian Pacific railroad sells him matrimo-
NAL ticket at the usual rate, and on presenting
the return coupon and marriage certificate he
is entitled to free transportation for his bride.
THERE are 20 blast furnaces in and about
Pttsburg, IS rolling mills, 80 steel works, Is
window glass works, 81 flint glass works and II
green glass works. The blast furnaces make
900, 900 tons of iron per year, the rolling mills
575 GOO TONS steel works $50 900 tons plate glass
works ,25o, 900 square feet, window glass works
900, 000
ONE of the shrewdest men In Maine is now in
Jail at Paris. He was arrested at his home in
the northern part of the State and taken to
Paris where he gave bond. A few days after
ward he came back and told his bondsman to
surrender him. I've got to stay here for some
time he said, land don't want to be at any
expense. / propose to have the county pay my
bills while stay"
FRANK JACKSON, of Virginia City, Neb., out
shooting jack rabbits, saw an animal lying on
a ledge of rocks. and blazed away, Just to see
the crtter rum The critter ram but it ran to-
ward Jackson, who waited to give it the second
barrel. The gun missed fire. and then there
were some very lively times between the man
and the beast, until a comrade ran up and
killed the latter, which proved to be full grown
lynx, with fully developed claws and teeth, as
Mr.. Jackson had discovered.
A YOUNG AUSTRALIAN near Bochara, after an
unusually hard days work, sheep shearing, went
to sleep on the sitting room couch after supper.
Soon he arose, walked out into the darkness,
went through four gates, which he carefully
closed, to the woodshed, and then hung up his
coat and took down his sheep shears and sharp
cned them. Then he caught a sheep and had
just finished Shearing it, when some of the
household came with a lantern. Then it turned
out that he had been asleep all the time, and the
light of the lantern awakened him The sheep
was sheared as well as though it had been done
in broad daylight.
THE Bishop of London has recently made pub
lie some interesting statistics on the religious
life of the great city According to his figures
the average number of communicates at COM
munion services of the established church dur
ing the year was ,714 At Easter the number
rose to 80, 600. The average attendance at Sun
day morning services was 2)0, $780, at Sunday
evening services 205, 400. London is a remarka-
bly, church-going city, but this exhibit shows
that it has about four million inhabitants who
don't attend the services of the established
church. and that those who do constitute only
| about one-ninth of the population.